I have had a heck of a hard time trying to work on any of my writing projects in the past few months.. Especially with my initial goal at the beginning of this year, sometimes it is hard to take the small victories.  I wanted to write 40k every month in 2018. I quit writing mid January and didn't pick it back up again until Camp NaNoWriMo in April, where I managed to write almost 15k before I quit again. And I want to make excuses, but at some point, who am I even making them to? I know what happened. I know that school got busy, or that my mom had surgery, or that AP exams started or everything else that happened that I did not write during. I know all of that. So then why do I feel the need to excuse my writing behavior? So, today is the day I am not going to make anymore excuses for my not writing. If it is something that I enjoy, then of course I should try to make time to write. And I want writing to be an important part of my life. The next day that you are behind, or d...

Another TBR for a readathon! Sob-A-Thon runs from Monday, May 21 to Sunday, May 27 with the expressed purpose of reading those books that will make you cry. Coming up with this TBR was fun and hopefully will be successful in bringing those tears. Challenge 1: Read a book you've been putting off because you know it will make you too emotional. I chose The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas for this challenge. I requested the ebook forever ago and though I got the book, I just haven't read it. Not only do I know that I'll cry, but I am also afraid that it will not meet my expectations as the amazing book I am expecting. Seriously though, I know that this will be an emotional read and therefore perfect for this readathon. Challenge 2: Read a book that will make you cry from happiness. I feel like Traitor to the Throne by Alwyn Hamilton has the best chance as making me cry as anything else. I cry often enough that it is hard to remember, but I think that I ended up cryin...

Within the past year, I have gotten really into readathons so it seems fitting my first blog post is about an upcoming one. Borrow-a-Thon runs from Sunday, May 20 to Sunday, May 27. While this is also the same week as Sob-A-Thon, I am refraining from posting about the latter readathon now, primarily because I don't have my TBR done yet. For some reason, I decided to not overlap books for challenges between the two readathons. Even though all the books I am using are both borrowed and liable to make me cry. But let's get into this Borrow-a-thon TBR: Challenge 1: A book award winner or nominee For this challenge, I decided to read What Girls Are Made Of   by Elana K. Arnold. I stumbled upon this at the library, and while I have only the vaguest idea what it's about, it seems like a bildungsroman novel for women as the main character, Nina, faces life. It also is a National Book Award Finalist and likely one of the first challenges I finish. Challenge 2: A book w...